Minuets and quadrilles followed each other in succession, and refreshments began to make their appearance.
The minuetscame to an end, and Dupre announced the quadrilles, and I was glad to see the Chevalier Ville-Follet dancing with the Corticelli.
In his cantatas he shows himself at once captivating and caressing, and in his minuets he is delightful and full of humour.
It was not such a precocity as that of Mozart, who was playing minuets at the age of four, and writing concertos when he was five; but just on that account it is all the more credible.
I had seen her dancing two minuets in succession each with a grace and dignity which no other woman in the room could equal.
Variations were sometimes made in the character of the minuets by changes in the instrumentation, more especially in the trio.
In the midst of more serious study he found time to send his sister a new country dance, in return for which she was to send him some new minuets by Haydn.
In his fourth year his father began, in play, to teach him minuets and other pieces on the clavier; in a very short time he could play them with perfect correctness and in exact time.
We cannot hear those minuets which best reflect the character of the dance without thinking of powder and hoops; and now that the manners it suggests have become obsolete, it can only be humorously reproduced.
Minuets are my dance, and I would like you to see me dance them.
In following the career of a great composer, his first efforts, however humble, however incomplete, are of interest; but from a purely musical point of view the Minuets of Nos.
Two graceful Minuets (the second taking the place of a Trio) follow, and the third movement is an Allegro in sonata-form.
So the Minuets were to be short; then the limit of length is prescribed; and, lastly, an Intermezzo without Trio is planned.
The exceedingly light and graceful Minuets remind one of the kinship between the composer and Haydn.
The minuets and overtures from Arianna and Berenice had a long popularity.
From the remark: "Very short minuets to the new sonatas.
These advertisements conclude thus: "The music for the Minuets and German dances for this ball is an entirely new arrangement.
I've let you off the Minuets and Gavottes, but I insist on the Country Dances.
Soon the Minuets would begin, and after the Minuets, the Gavottes, and so on to the Country Dances and the last great Cotillon.
When the minuets stopped the square dances began, and refreshments were liberally handed round.
The minuets over, the square dances began, and I thought I was dreaming when I saw Armelline and the Florentine taking their places.
While the after-supper minuets were being danced Juliette took me apart, and said, "Take me to your bedroom; I have just got an amusing idea.
Under his tuition, I beat time and danced minuets for four years.
I am playing several quadrilles and minuets from a book.
I heard many other nice things during that dance and the following ones, for the duke invited me for almost all the minuets and quadrilles, and talked to me all the time.
In vain did Sir Asinus dance minuets without number, execute bows beyond example--the little maiden obstinately persisted in bestowing her smiles on her companion, Bathurst.
Dancing was proposed; the King opened the ball with the Duchess of Ancaster, and named the second minuet with the Countess of Harrington; the minuets were succeeded by English country dances, and those by the French cotillons.
Yet the court did not grow dull; cotillons and minuets were often danced in the palace, and the opening of the theatre for the season afforded much interest and amusement.
While the minuets were dancing we stood and watched the gay throng.
Of course there was nothing but minuets until eight o'clock.
Haydn's minuets are the product of a laughter-loving national life, Mozart's give the tone of good society.
Especially well-defined in character are the minuets of the D minor and C major quartets--the former bold and defiant, the latter fresh and vigorous.
The minuets are characteristic of Mozart's tendencies as opposed to Haydn's.
We only wish we could succeed in introducing a taste for German minuets into Italy, as their minuets last nearly as long as entire symphonies.
Molk that I rejoice at the thoughts of Salzburg, in the hope that I may again receive the same kind of present for the minuets which was bestowed on me at a similar concert.
There might be a valuable hint here touching the proper tempo for the minuets in Mozart's symphonies.
Of late years the conductors, of the Wagnerian school more particularly, have acted on the belief that the symphonic minuets of Mozart and Haydn must be played with the stately slowness of the old dance.
We wish that it were in our power to introduce the German taste in minuets in Italy; minuets here last almost as long as whole symphonies.
Minuets exist also without the Trio, and are in Form 1 or 2.
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